Proust Questionnaire: adriana's answers

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On Tue, 25 Jun 13 13:43:30 UTC adriana (45) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lose one of your family members
Where would you like to live?: In a cottage facing the sea and with a backyard facing a forest
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To see my family dwell in happiness around a table in the garden, joking and singing a tue-tete
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: to the hurtful words of an angry daughter towards her mom
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The great Gatsby
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Napoleon Bonaparte, Queen Elisabeth 1st, Barack Obama
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who strive for the happiness of their children
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: jeanne d'arc
Your favorite painter?: Picasso
Your favorite musician?: Bach
The quality you most admire in a man?: Integrity, humor
The quality you most admire in a woman?: finesse, intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: loyalty
Your favorite occupation?: reading, reflecting on myself
Who would you have liked to be?: Myself yet.
Your most marked characteristic?: friendly and witty
What do you most value in your friends?: sincerity, thoughtfulness
What is your principle defect?: stubborness, to the point of hurting my feelings and those of my beloved
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to have lost both parents at an early age
What would you like to be?: an adorned mother and wife
What is your favorite color?: It depends on my mood, blue for gloomy days, red for shiny days
What is your favorite flower?: jacinthe
What is your favorite bird?: dove
Who are your favorite prose writers?: hemingway
Who are your favorite poets?: Robert Burns
Who are your heroes in real life?: ordinary men who put their lives in danger top save complete strangers
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Queen Victoria
What are your favorite names?: Antonia, my daughter's and father's name
What is it you most dislike?: Treating the most vulnerable people with disrespect
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?: USA engagement in Second World War
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: to be gifted in sciences
How would you like to die?: at a very old age, holding the hands of my most beloved
What is your present state of mind?: Angry and disillusioned
What is your motto?: carpe diem

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